Expansion

Reorganisation and the end of the war brought no immediate
relief to Taylor & Francis. Paper supplies gradually improved,
though even at the close of the 1940s paper for periodicals
remained subject to restriction. But the main problem was the
recruitment of skilled labour. It was estimated at the end of 1945
that, even when demobilisation had been completed, the printing
and binding trades would still be some 10000 skilled operators
short of their pre-war establishment. When Taylor & Francis
tried to recruit twenty men at this time, they actually found only
three. Even so, the company did relatively well, having thirtyfive compositors in 1947 compared with twenty-eight ten years
earlier.